NEW HAMPSHIRE: THE GROUND GAME [Chip Griffin 10/19 11:12 AM]
The presidential campaigns seem to be single-handedly keeping the paper industry in business. For more than a week, the flood of direct mail has been mind-boggling. My wife is a registered Independent (the largest registration bloc here in the Granite State) and I'm a Republican. Between the two of us, we have at least one piece of mail from the DNC and RNC in our mailbox every day. In addition, George Soros was kind enough to send a lengthy pamphlet and NARAL has peppered my wife with postcards (in addition to a generic autocall we got from them about 10 days ago featuring some actress I had never heard of — but then I'm not the target audience for her am I?). Today's mail featured the RNC telling me about all Bush has done for small business and the flip side castigated Kerry over support for high taxes and trial lawyers. Meanwhile, the DNC sent a large mailer with a side by side comparison of Bush and Kerry on health care.
It's only a matter of time before the letter carriers union sends a postcard complaining about the unfair working conditions created by the presidential campaign.
